Dauber



,oci. 30,1923. 1,472,408

1 w. E. CASTLE ET AL DAUBER 4 Filed Sept. 21 1921 I 1 W ('kaZZwHLHarzaamZ Fatented (let. Bill i923 ILL 11 93 5 E. CASTLE AND ROBERT L. HANSAED, O1 GRAHAl /I, TEXAS, ASSIGNGR-S 0F ONE-THIRD T0 E. G. BAILEY, OF RICHIYEOED, VIRGINIA.

DA'UBER.

Application filed September 21, 1921. Serial Ho. 592,109.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. CASTLE and Plounn'r L. :EIANSARD, citizens of the United States, residing at Graham, in the county of Young and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in llaubers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a dauber 0r shoe blacking brush adapted however for other purposes involving the application of a stain or like material to a surface under conditions permitting of the uniform spreading thereof, and particularly the object in view is to facilitate the application of the blaoking or polishing material to the surface and apply it in quantities suited to the purpose while maintaining the stock of material protected against the accumulation of dust and exposure to the air; and with these objects in view the invent-ion consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure l is a side view of a dauber or brush embodying the invention,

Figure 2 is a plan .view of the same,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof,

Figure 4 is a sectional view of the modified construction wherein the original container of the blacking or like material may be seated directly in the handle of the brush.

The device consists essentially of a hollow brush head 10 carrying bristles or a daubing element 11 of any form suited to the material to be applied and the surface to which it is to be applied, a reservoir 12 being connected with the interior of said head by means of a feed tube 13 fitted with a controlling valve 14:.

The valve is yieldingly held seated by.

means of a spring 15 or the equivalent thereof and attached to the stem of the valve is an operating rod 16 having a push button 17 arranged within convenient reach of the finger or thumb of a hand grasping the reservoir 12 which latter serves as a grip or handle by which the brush head may be manipulated.

In the construction illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive the reservoir 12 is adapted to receive the material to be fed to the brush and is provided at its rear end with a filling cap 18 fitted with a removable cap screw 19 whereas in the construction illustrated in Figure 4c the reservoir 12 is made of a diameter suilicient to receive a bottle or like receptacle 20 containing the material to be applied by means of the brush, the rear end of the reservoir in this instance being fitted with a removable screw cap 21 and the reduced funnel shaped portion 22 of said reservoir being provided with an interior conical pad 23 to form a seat "for the neck or lip of the bottle so that leakage of the latter rearwardly may be prevented while a free forward flow oi the liquid contents thereof to the outlet tube 13 is permitted, said tube 13 corresponding with the feed tube 13 of the construction illustrated in Figures 1 to 53 inclusive.

By means of a device such as described it is possible to apply blacking or other material to the surface to be cleaned or polished without waste of the material Without having the hands of the operator stained or soiled, and under conditions providing for the economical use of the material in that only so much thereof as is required is permitted to pass the controlling valve.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is A dauber having a hollow handle to constitute a reservoir, a feed tube having: an enlarged flared portion connected to said handle a hollow brush head attached to said tube with its longitudinal axis substantially at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the handle and into which the portion of said tube extends, said tube within the hollow brush head being flared inwardly to constitute a valve seat, a valve within the brush head engaging said seat, a spring to urge seatingof the valve, an operating ele- In testimony whereof We afiiX 0111 g -1nent extendlng at an angle to the axis natures 1n presence of two witnesses.

of the tube and having connection with the valve so as to be maintained in normal posh WILLIAM E. CASTLE ROBERT. L; HANS-BARB.

' tion by said spring, and guide means rigid V'Vitnesses: x

with the tube and brush head i01- slidably IRA E. WOODS; x mounting said element. R. EEERWIN. 

